ArtsBeat: Second Stage Adds 'Dear Evan Hansen' To Spring Season
The musical, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, will be staged Off Broadway, though its commercial producer didn't rule out further life on Broadway.
The musical, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, will be staged Off Broadway, though its commercial producer didn't rule out further life on Broadway.
The actor and comedian will succeed Billy Porter as the drag queen Lola in the hit Broadway musical.
A playlist of hip-hop and show tunes from Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
Mr. Miranda recognized early that both musical styles, even with their different sounds and audiences, share an emphasis on storytelling.
The magic show is earning more than most of the musicals and plays on Broadway.
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon and Joshua Henry will join Ms. McDonald next spring in a musical that seeks to reintroduce one of the first all-black shows on Broad…
The hip-hop musical about the nation's founding fathers is scheduled to open on Thursday night.
The show has never proved as popular as it did when Neil Patrick Harris was its star.
Mr. Cumberbatch's appearance as Hamlet a 12-week run at the Barbican is easily the most anticipated event of the London theatrical season.
The musical retelling of the life of the nation's first Treasury secretary is poised to become not only a hit, but a turning point for the art form and a cultural conversation piece.
The Broadway show, which opens on July 16, has raised emotions among the actors who will portray slaves and slave traders.
The show is the third musical production to announce its closing since the Tony Awards.
In its final week on Broadway, the play, which starred Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II, racked up $1,425,523.
Producers want to bring a play about President Jimmy Carter's effort to broker peace between Israel and Egypt to Broadway in the 2016-17 season.
The revival of David Hare's play set a theater record during its final week on Broadway.
NBC Entertainment and Universal Studios will develop the musical about Marilyn Monroe that originated as part of the TV show "Smash."
"You Got Older" by Clare Barron and "Small Mouth Sounds" by Bess Wohl are among the recommended plays.
At a celebratory event for the coming Broadway show, Alexander Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow was critical of the Treasury Department for planning to give the Founding Father less prominenc…
Inge enthusiasts are trying to bolster the playwright's profile with the first full staging of a largely forgotten 1960s play at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
"Bright Star," a collaboration between Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, will come to the Kennedy Center in Washington in December and is aiming for Broadway next spring.
Ten Broadway shows grossed more than $1 million in the week following the Tony Awards broadcast.
A new ad from the creators of "Something Rotten!" draws attention to the company the musical joined when it lost the Tony race for best musical.
The Belgian experimental theater director Ivo van Hove will make his Broadway debut with his much-lauded staging of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge," which will star Mark Strong.
The Dramatists Guild of American complains to CBS that awards for writers are not shown in the Tonys' telecast.
"Gigi," which will close on June 21, joins another musical, "The Visit," starring Chita Rivera, which closes on Sunday.